According to BroadbandTVNews, here, a special version of BBC iPlayer is due to be available in aircraft later this year.

It's been uploaded, but as has happened in the past there's been a delay putting the link up on the website. So here it is:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/mypension/documents/bbc-prospero-april-2026.pdf

Fran Acheson, radio producer and probably known to many staff as a trainer with BBC Academy (formerly BBC Training) has sadly passed away.

Richard Wilford has posted this on Facebook:
Some sad news to share with those of you who worked at the BBC during the Pebble Mill years.
Sue Ward, who worked on the production team on John Taynton’s late show and then with The Archers has passed away peacefully at home in Durham.
Sue’s sister, Helen, who also spent some time with BBC Radio WM, asked me to help pass the message on to anyone who knew her.
Wishing Helen and family the very best at this difficult time.

https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/23899/opinion/pam-masters-a-key-figure-in-modern...

A Just Giving page has been created by Neil’s daughter, Emma, to raise money for the British Heart Foundation.  

You can donate here:
https://www.justgiving.com/page/neildormand

I remember Fred Mallet from the BBC in Glasgow I also remember his co-workers Lachie & John. Fred was larger than life and a cheerful cheeky cockney geezer into the bargain. BBC Scotland had a lovely club in a terraced building just over the river in Botanic Crescent, I would pop in of a Friday after work for a pint and Fred would invariably be standing, cigarette in hand playing one of the big jackpot fruit machines. He would say hello and so as not to lose his place on the machine he'd ask me if I would go get him a pint, one for myself and the change would go in the 'puggie'! I was in my teens when I first met Fred and he must have been in his fifties, that was back in the mid 1970's so odds are he's gone to that big processing lab in the sky. A lovely guy. Hope this helps.

Some very sad news, Tony Millier ex BBC Sound Supervisor died recently. He was well known for doing many Dr. Who series, The Duchess of Duke Street, and a lot of single dramas.

He was the original organiser of the BBC Staff Dance at the Hammersmith Palais and a founder member of the Inland Waterways Section of the Club.

His Funeral is at 12:30 on Monday 9th. March at the East Chapel, Breakspear Crematorium, Breakspear Road, Ruislip, HA4 7SJ

Brian Phillips the much-loved Studio Mechanical Engineer, sadly passed away last Sunday 22nd February 2026 after 15 years battling Waldenstr?m’s, a blood cancer.
His funeral will be held on Friday 20th March, at 1200, at Beckenham Crematorium, Elmers End Road, Beckenham BR3 4TD. To be followed by a wake at the Elm Tree Pub, 116 Croydon Road, Elmers End, Beckenham BR3 4DF